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Rogue
by Eden Finley
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This one is hard to rate and review. In general, books where the MCs for whatever reason refuse to admit/aknowledge/confess their feelings annoy me to no end. Very rarely do I read a book where this plot line feels necessary. I know that’s massively just my own preferences, though. There’s nothing wrong with this book at all, but it does affect my view of the book.
I’m not sure if Travis West has been a big part of previous series by the author or not, but from what I remember of book 1, Iris, I was surprised by his personality and behavior in this one. From the previous book and the blurb, I was expecting a stoic and serious boss/man who felt he found something special in Dylan, and had pined for him since. I guess that’s all still true to some extent, but the relentless teasing, making light of the night they shared, endlessly making lewd jokes and comments.. it just didn’t jibe with what I was expecting. We did atleast get a serious conversation about the teasing and their feelings eventually, but it didn’t feel like a big enough deal? I don’t even know if that makes sense. I should just go to bed.
I maybe should have started with this though: I enjoyed the book. They’re both still generally likeable characters, and a romantic suspense book would have to be horribly bad for me not to enjoy some of it. It is my favorite genre, after all. It was nice to see more of Saint and Iris, and to get an idea of who Atlas is, which made me very excited to read his book. I’m giving this one 3.5 stars, but that isn’t in any way a bad thing. It just means I probably won’t read it again. The audiobook was very good, which isn’t a huge surprise considering Tim Paige was in it (oh, and Gomez Pugh, which was cool!)
The spice was top notch too. I don’t know how they had the time to f*ck that much while sort of being on the run, honestly. I’m impressed with their refractory periods as well. Solid studs, lol.
Book safety
Cheating: No
OM drama: No.
Extra comment: Dylan and Trav had a one night stand 7 years earlier. They have been in and out of each others lives since. Both were sort of hung up on the other, but neither were celibate in the interim. No other hookups are detailed or on-page, but there were other people between their ONS and them getting together properly.
POV: 1st person, dual
Strict top/bottom or vers: They’re versatile
TW/CW
Gun violence, murder, blood, explicit sexual content, mentions of homophobia and ‘dont ask dont tell’, mentions of difficult parental relationship, corrupt federal agency
Tropes & tags
DEA, law enforcement, private operator/security/military group, ex military, found family, mankini, one night stand, pining
This one is hard to rate and review. In general, books where the MCs for whatever reason refuse to admit/aknowledge/confess their feelings annoy me to no end. Very rarely do I read a book where this plot line feels necessary. I know that’s massively just my own preferences, though. There’s nothing wrong with this book at all, but it does affect my view of the book.
I’m not sure if Travis West has been a big part of previous series by the author or not, but from what I remember of book 1, Iris, I was surprised by his personality and behavior in this one. From the previous book and the blurb, I was expecting a stoic and serious boss/man who felt he found something special in Dylan, and had pined for him since. I guess that’s all still true to some extent, but the relentless teasing, making light of the night they shared, endlessly making lewd jokes and comments.. it just didn’t jibe with what I was expecting. We did atleast get a serious conversation about the teasing and their feelings eventually, but it didn’t feel like a big enough deal? I don’t even know if that makes sense. I should just go to bed.
I maybe should have started with this though: I enjoyed the book. They’re both still generally likeable characters, and a romantic suspense book would have to be horribly bad for me not to enjoy some of it. It is my favorite genre, after all. It was nice to see more of Saint and Iris, and to get an idea of who Atlas is, which made me very excited to read his book. I’m giving this one 3.5 stars, but that isn’t in any way a bad thing. It just means I probably won’t read it again. The audiobook was very good, which isn’t a huge surprise considering Tim Paige was in it (oh, and Gomez Pugh, which was cool!)
The spice was top notch too. I don’t know how they had the time to f*ck that much while sort of being on the run, honestly. I’m impressed with their refractory periods as well. Solid studs, lol.
Book safety
Cheating: No
OM drama: No.
Extra comment: Dylan and Trav had a one night stand 7 years earlier. They have been in and out of each others lives since. Both were sort of hung up on the other, but neither were celibate in the interim. No other hookups are detailed or on-page, but there were other people between their ONS and them getting together properly.
POV: 1st person, dual
Strict top/bottom or vers: They’re versatile
TW/CW
Gun violence, murder, blood, explicit sexual content, mentions of homophobia and ‘dont ask dont tell’, mentions of difficult parental relationship, corrupt federal agency
Tropes & tags
DEA, law enforcement, private operator/security/military group, ex military, found family, mankini, one night stand, pining